EP1588022B1 - A system and a method for prediction and treatment of slugs being formed in a flow line or wellbore tubing - Google Patents

A system and a method for prediction and treatment of slugs being formed in a flow line or wellbore tubing Download PDF

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EP1588022B1
EP1588022B1 EP03781107A EP03781107A EP1588022B1 EP 1588022 B1 EP1588022 B1 EP 1588022B1 EP 03781107 A EP03781107 A EP 03781107A EP 03781107 A EP03781107 A EP 03781107A EP 1588022 B1 EP1588022 B1 EP 1588022B1
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    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
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    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
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    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B2200/00—Special features related to earth drilling for obtaining oil, gas or water
    • E21B2200/09—Detecting, eliminating, preventing liquid slugs in production pipes
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/0318—Processes
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • the present invention relates to a method and a system for prediction and treatment of hydrodynamic and terrain-induced slugs being transported in a multi-phase flow line.
  • the method and the system according to the present invention can be adapted to any production system, e.g. flow line system or wellbore tubing, transporting a multiphase fluid towards a downstream process including a separator (two- or three-phase) or a slug catcher at the inlet, in which there is regulation of both pressure and liquid level(s).
  • the multiphase fluid normally consists of a mixture of an oil (or a condensate) phase, gas and water.
  • a typical production system where the present invention could be implemented includes multiphase transport from platform wells, from subsea wells towards a subsea separator, from a subsea production template towards an offshore platform including a riser, between offshore platforms, from a subsea production system towards an onshore process facility or between onshore process facilities.
  • a multiphase production system might give what is known as slug flow, experienced as fluctuating mass flow and pressure at the production system outlet. Further, if these slugs are "large” compared to the design of the downstream equipment, the fluctuations could propagate into the process and reach a level untenable to the operators. As a consequence, and as a precaution to avoid a process trip, there are numerous examples where multiphase production lines have been choked down due to incoming slugs.
  • Slugs are normally initiated in two ways that are fundamentally different.
  • Terrain-induced slugs are caused by gravity effects when the velocity differences, and thus the interfacial friction, between the separate fluid phases is too small to allow the lightest fluid(s) to counteract the effect of gravity on the heavier fluid(s) in upward inclinations.
  • Hydrodynamic slugs (identified in a flow regime envelope as a function of the pipe angle and the superficial fluid velocities for a given fluid) are formed by waves growing on the liquid surface to a height sufficient to completely fill the pipe. Because of differences in the velocities of the various fluid phases up- and downstream of this hydrodynamic slug, an accumulation of liquid and thus a dynamic slug growth can occur.
  • Hydrodynamic slugs too are affected by the flow line elevation profile, since their formation and growth depend on the pipe angles. Note, however, that an obvious way to prove the distinction between terrain-induced and hydrodynamic slugs is that hydrodynamic slugs could be formed in 100% horizontal flow lines (sometimes even in downwards inclination), whereas terrain-induced slugs somehow need upwards inclination.
  • Slugging is by definition a transient phenomenon, and steady state conditions are hard to achieve in a slugging flow line system.
  • hydrocarbon liquid alternatively water or a hydrocarbon/water mixture
  • the slugs will at some point reach the flow line exit. Between these slugs, there will be periods where small amounts of liquid exiting the system and the process will more or less receive a single gas phase, also described as gas slugs.
  • US Patent No. 5544672 describes a system for mitigation of slug flow. It detects incoming slugs upstream of the separator and performs a rough calculation of their respective volumes. These slug volumes are thereafter compared with the liquid handling capacity of the separator. If the estimated volume of the incoming slugs exceeds the liquid slug handling capacity of the separator, a throttling valve located upstream of the separator is choked.
  • the International Patent Application WO 02/46577 describes a model-based feedback control system for stabilization of slug flow in multiphase flow lines and risers.
  • the system consists of a single fast acting valve located at the outlet of the transport system, i.e. upstream of the separator. The opening of this valve is adjusted by a single output control signal from the feedback controller that uses continuously monitoring of pressure upstream of the point where slugs are generated as the main input parameter.
  • This control system is specially suited for terrain-induced slugs since any liquid accumulation is detected by pressure increase upstream of the slug (due to static pressure across the liquid column).
  • the system does not show the same performance for slugs which are hydrodynamic by nature since these slugs could be formed in perfectly horizontal flow lines, giving no build-up of pressure upstream of the slug.
  • fast acting equipment located at the outlet of the transportation system, in combination with quick response time of the control loops are used to suppress development of slugs, by immediately counteracting the forces contributing to slug growth.
  • the present invention describes a method and a system applicable in connection with a downstream process in which disadvantages of former systems have been eliminated.
  • the basic idea is to fully integrate the production system and the downstream process.
  • the main advantages of the invention is that it utilizes the whole downstream process for slug treatment and it applies to any kind of slug normally presented in a multiphase flow line system independent of type or nature of the slug. It will also cover any operating range if it is properly designed.
  • this objective is accomplished in a method of the above kind in that said method comprises the following steps: detecting said slug downstream of the point for slug initiation and upstream said process by means of a slug detector, determining and measuring all main characteristics of said slug by means of a computer unit that receives all signals from said slug detector.
  • Said computer unit receives signals from all instruments needed for regulation of pressure and liquid levels from every separator or slug catcher in the liquid trains of the entire downstream process.
  • Said computer unit determines the nature of every incoming slug and predicts its arrival time to said separator or slug catcher and corresponding volume and compares it with the actual slug handling capability of said process.
  • Said computer unit processes all its incoming data in order to find an optimum regulation of said downstream process so that process perturbations due to incoming slugs are reduced to a minimum throughout the entire process.
  • the regulation of said process is achieved by means of choke adjustments or by adjusting the speed of compressors or pumps connected to each separator.
  • this objective is accomplished in a system of the above kind in that the system comprises a slug detector 1 located downstream of the point for slug initiation and upstream of said process inlet including instruments dedicated to determine and measure the main slug characteristics of every incoming slug, a computer unit integrated into said flow line system and said downstream process including software which determines the type of the slug, its volume and predicts its arrival time into said downstream process.
  • a slug detector 1 located downstream of the point for slug initiation and upstream of said process inlet including instruments dedicated to determine and measure the main slug characteristics of every incoming slug
  • a computer unit integrated into said flow line system and said downstream process including software which determines the type of the slug, its volume and predicts its arrival time into said downstream process.
  • a multiphase meter or flow transmitter 5 is included upstream of the topside choke 19.
  • the computer unit 4 also includes normal (traditional) pressure and level regulation of each separator unit in the process in case the pressure or liquid level(s) pass their alarm levels, approaching their trip levels. During such circumstances, there might be a need to de-activate the regulation.
  • the incoming slugs are detected at an early stage by instrumentation 1 dedicated to define the slug characteristics.
  • instrumentation 1 dedicated to define the slug characteristics.
  • instrumentation 1 dedicated to define the slug characteristics.
  • WO 02/46577 bases its control on measurements of pressure and temperature upstream of the point where slugs are generated (in order to suppress slug formation if any pressure build-up is recorded)
  • the instrumentation is located downstream of the point of slug formation, since its intention is to describe the slug characteristics.
  • the very simplest way to define the slug characteristics is by use of a densitometer as described in US Patent No. 5544672 , but the instrumentation could easily be extended for more sophisticated information. Online information of the fluid mixture density is used for determination of:
  • the basic instrumentation according to the present invention includes registration of the differential pressure (dP) between the slug detector and the process arrival as a precaution if slugs should be formed downstream of the slug detector. Including more complex instrumentation will further optimise the detector, as long as the production system remains pigable. In particular, additional information on the on-line water cut in combination with the local hold-up or void fraction as well as fluid velocities of the different phases would be valuable input to the computer unit 4, and so is a multiphase meter 5 at the flow line outlet.
  • dP differential pressure
  • the location 2 of the slug detector must be sufficient for the downstream process to respond adequately prior to slug arrival. Hence, this location 2 needs to be optimised for every new implementation, since it very much depends on the actual production system. It is believed that an optimum location will be within 3 km from the process inlet, giving the computer unit sufficient time to react upon incoming slugs. One exception applies to large gas, condensate systems producing towards an onshore installation where the volume of the slug catchers sometimes is very significant. Note also that for extreme deep-water developments, the optimum location could be somewhere inside the riser itself as seen in Figure 2 by 10 and not necessarily in the subsea flow line or at the riser bottom.
  • the slug detector sends its signals to the computer unit 4, which constitutes the main component of the present invention. It collects all incoming information from the slug detector as well as the main process parameters of the downstream liquid train. Its overall purpose is to calculate (for every incoming slug):
  • the computer unit which preferably includes an on-line transient thermohydraulic simulator, includes three options to define the fluid velocity(ies) and thereby the estimated slug arrival time. Firstly, it could be estimated by manual input, but then some operating scenarios would require de-activation of the system and thereby use of traditional (i.e. manual) methods for slug control. The second alternative is to calculate the fluid velocity(ies) by use of the thermohydraulic flow simulator, where a multiphase meter at the flow line outlet 5 will improve the performance of the computer calculations. Finally, the velocities of the different fluid phases could be determined based on on-line ultrasonic measurements, located somewhere between the slug detector and the process arrival.
  • the prediction of reliable slug volumes is obtained through an integral module. Based on information of the slug front, slug tail, mixture density, the fluid velocities defined above and one of the following: water cut, gas void fraction or local hold-up, the computer unit will give accurate estimates of the slug arrival times and their corresponding volumes.
  • the output signals from the computer unit will be optimised and adjusted to reduce the process perturbations in the downstream HC liquid train to a minimum.

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